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Five people spend the night in an abandoned house, an Amityville haunted house, and soon find themselves terrorized by assorted ghosts, venomous insects and ghostly apparitions.Five people spend the night in an abandoned house, an Amityville haunted house, and soon find themselves terrorized by assorted ghosts, venomous insects and ghostly apparitions.Five people spend the night in an abandoned house, an Amityville haunted house, and soon find themselves terrorized by assorted ghosts, venomous insects and ghostly apparitions.
Scott Yaphe
- Thin Boy
- (as Scott Howard)
Richard Tassé
- Gas station attendant
- (uncredited)
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This film essentially begins with a Catholic priest in Amityville, New York taking confession at a local church, when an unknown person in the booth suddenly shoots him to death for no apparent reason. The scene then shifts to 12 years later with a psychologist by the name of "Marvin" (David Stein) buying the house where the priest once lived with the intention of renovating it to resell afterward for a hefty profit. So, after buying the house, he convinces a married couple named "Bill" (Anthony Dean Rubes) and his wife "Abigal" (Cassandra Gava), along with another friend named "Frank" (Kim Coates) to help him and his wife "Debbie" (Dawna Wightman) fix it up. As it so happens, however, Debbie has often had psychic premonitions in the past and upon setting foot inside the house begins to get the feeling that there is something evil lurking within. Not long afterward, all sorts of terrible things begin to happen which disturbs all of Marvin's friends--and things rapidly get worse the longer they remain there. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that, although this movie certainly had potential, most of it was wasted due to bad acting and a couple of completely unlikeable characters--with Marvin probably being the worst. Throw in a rather long and cliched ending, and it's no wonder that the movie has so many negative reviews. That being said, other than the presence of Cassandra Gava, I didn't find much in this film that was even remotely interesting, and I have rated it accordingly. Below average.
"Moviecritique USA" rates this a 10/10 eh? up there with LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, CITIZEN KANE, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, MIDNIGHT COWBOY and LORD OF THE RINGS? Let's pass on that one!
This rates below PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE! It should not be confused with ANY Amityville sequel, or even a professionally made film come to that. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT was the con-job of the last millennium but even IT is classic filmmaking besides this dreck!
The ONLY reason to watch it is the last fifteen minutes. Never have I seen one person take so much laughable punishment....and keep going! Its a hoot!
It starts...nothing sensible happens, then it stops. End of story!
This rates below PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE! It should not be confused with ANY Amityville sequel, or even a professionally made film come to that. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT was the con-job of the last millennium but even IT is classic filmmaking besides this dreck!
The ONLY reason to watch it is the last fifteen minutes. Never have I seen one person take so much laughable punishment....and keep going! Its a hoot!
It starts...nothing sensible happens, then it stops. End of story!
When I decided to binge watch the Amityville films I hadn't seen before I feared the worst. Partially because they've hardly impressed me and partially because the IMDb ratings for them were really poor.
Starring Kim Coates this one screams milking the franchise, it doesn't look or feel like an Amityville film in fact I think it's barely even acknowledged twice maybe three times throughout.
Random visions, a person possessed and a whole lot of nothing is what you can expect from these 90 minutes of sheer unadulterated boredom.
Terrible flawed storyline, lackluster performances and very little to draw your attention for a moment let alone maintain it.
The Good:
Nope
The Bad:
The psycho music, really!?
Unforgivably boring
Was that even the Amityville house?
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
I learnt that this Amityville binge might have been a bad move
Starring Kim Coates this one screams milking the franchise, it doesn't look or feel like an Amityville film in fact I think it's barely even acknowledged twice maybe three times throughout.
Random visions, a person possessed and a whole lot of nothing is what you can expect from these 90 minutes of sheer unadulterated boredom.
Terrible flawed storyline, lackluster performances and very little to draw your attention for a moment let alone maintain it.
The Good:
Nope
The Bad:
The psycho music, really!?
Unforgivably boring
Was that even the Amityville house?
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
I learnt that this Amityville binge might have been a bad move
First of all, this wasn't meant to be an "Amityville" sequel, it just tried to draw its audience by using that word in the title, but otherwise has little to do with what has happened before it in the series. That would be OK if they had come up with a good flick anyway - but they didn't. Do you find it a good idea for a horror movie to give away its own surprises halfway through? If not, then avoid this one. (*1/2)
The first thing you'll notice about The Amityville Curse is that the house in which it is set isn't the iconic property that we've all come to know and fear from the earlier films. And if they can't be bothered to even get that right, what hope is there?
Sure enough, The Amityville Curse is a truly lame addition to the franchise, the terrible script attempting to combine the supernatural with psycho killer shenanigans, with characters that are hard to give a damn about.
A group of obnoxious adults buy the infamous Amityville house with the intention of renovating it and then selling it, doubling their investment. Ignoring most of what has occurred in the previous movies (there's mention of Sonny Montelli's murder spree from part II, but no sign of the house being built over a gateway to Hell), this film sees the friends discovering that the building has been used to store a confession booth in which a priest was murdered. Random spooky stuff happens, there's a large tarantula in the house (reason enough to leave the place pronto), and the priest's killer reveals himself at the end, engaging in a spot of clichéd stalk and slash.
3/10.
Sure enough, The Amityville Curse is a truly lame addition to the franchise, the terrible script attempting to combine the supernatural with psycho killer shenanigans, with characters that are hard to give a damn about.
A group of obnoxious adults buy the infamous Amityville house with the intention of renovating it and then selling it, doubling their investment. Ignoring most of what has occurred in the previous movies (there's mention of Sonny Montelli's murder spree from part II, but no sign of the house being built over a gateway to Hell), this film sees the friends discovering that the building has been used to store a confession booth in which a priest was murdered. Random spooky stuff happens, there's a large tarantula in the house (reason enough to leave the place pronto), and the priest's killer reveals himself at the end, engaging in a spot of clichéd stalk and slash.
3/10.
Did you know
- TriviaThis is the first and only Amityville sequel not to feature the original house.
- Quotes
Debbie: You scared me.
Mrs. Moriarty: [laughs] I seem to have that effect on a lot of folk around here.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Psychic (1991)
- SoundtracksLying Lips
Performed by Lenore Zann and Ralph Dillon
Written by Ralph Dillon and George Henderson
Published by Ralph Dillon
With permission of Ralph Dillon
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